Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization

Robert was able to talk less and less over the years because of Parkinson’s Disease. He knew all of his teachings were just flapping of lips, and he taught just to get people around him, because it was in his presence one felt the peace of emptiness. I understand that during his last Satsang he only said one word over and over, and that was “Freedom!”

This is what I try to teach. Freedom from concepts, freedom from conditioning and society, and mostly freedom from the known. I try to help people get entirely out of concepts and limitations, to face each moment totally unknowing, seeing what is without systems, learning or conditioning. I try to teach to see from emptiness or the heart without all the inner and outer conflict, unarmed by knowledge. Functioning from this place is complete happiness.

However, most seekers for most of their seeking careers are looking for knowledge and techniques.  Book after book, workshop after workshop, guru after guru; on and on they plod. Even Robert submitted to their needs by providing Advaita teachings and techniques because this is what beginning and intermediate seekers look for, crumbs of knowledge.

I find most teachers give knowledge and techniques, providing means of control over the mind or external environment, and lots and lots of descriptions, nouns and adjectives, rather than action verbs that lead to freedom. They have systems, progressive emptiness meditations, theories on the meaning of dreams, they teach siddhis, or mantras that do such and such. And students love knowledge because that is the minds function, and most seekers rely on the mind rather than their hearts or their nothingness, if they even have an acquaintance with their nothingness.  Many have brief encounters with nothingness and are either terrified to find they are nothing, or think nothingness has nothing to teach, and being teachings-seekers, they leave the most exquisite states possible--nothingness in its many manifestations--to go back to a learning, mental mode.

This way is difficult because you really have nothing to show for it except increasing happiness, joy and energy. But once you get into a system, like learning the different kinds of emptiness, or learning several thousand koan answers, or developing a siddhi, or learning intellectually about chambers of the heart rather than feeling the rivers of love that are always directly flowing through us, freedom is lost. You are back in school learning someone else's opinions and concepts, rather than living freshly every moment with all kinds of limitations and boundaries.

I have found the highest teachings before one obtains liberation are those of Nisargadatta and Krishnamurti. However, Krishnamurti never offered a method or way, while Nisargadatta did. Mine is a modification of his way and Robert’s.  I know all teachings are basically illusion, but students don't, so I pretend to teach concepts in order to end all concepts.


All the other posts you see on this site are for one purpose only: to get you to question and overcome your preconceptions and concepts.  Recently I have focused on sex, marriage and the guru idea, because these issues are so loaded down with concepts, scripts, taboos, etc. If you can let go here, you will be a long way up on freeing yourself from many other concepts.